From: Simos Xenitellis <simos74@gmx.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel?
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 17:06:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1102784797.4410.8.camel@kl> (raw)
Hi All,
The current UTF-8 keyboard input (for the console) of the Linux kernel
does not support "composing" or writing characters with accents. This
affects quite a few languages that require accents (French, German,
Danish, Swedish?, Greek, cyrillic-based?, others?.).
In general, UTF-8 console support is good to display text in different character sets,
enabling to configure a distribution to use UTF-8 locales for both
console/Xorg. However, while it was possible to write in German, Spanish, French, etc,
now it is not possible anymore.
While looking into the problem, I noticed that there is work to make
Linux console handle Unicode better.
Two links are of interest
A. Improved UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel, by Chris Heath
http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html
B. Notes on the Linux console, by Innocenti Maresin
http://www.comtv.ru/~av95/linux/console/
Discussion on these issues take place at the linux-utf8 mailing list, archived at
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/nlo.lists.linux-utf8
Chris Heath has a set of incremental patches
(http://chris.heathens.co.nz/linux/utf8.html) to enhance Unicode for the
console.
I noticed that he contacted this list in May 2003
(http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2003/May/7956.html) but
unfortunatelly the discussion was diverted to coding styles.
Is there an interest for re-submission of mentioned patches for
inclusion in the kernel (yeah, provided coding style is "normalised")?
Simos
p.s.
I am not sending this e-mail on behalf of any of the authors, just
myself.
next reply other threads:[~2004-12-11 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-11 17:06 Simos Xenitellis [this message]
2004-12-11 17:30 ` Improved console UTF-8 support for the Linux kernel? David Gómez
2004-12-11 19:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-11 21:25 ` David Gómez
2004-12-11 21:39 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-11 22:01 ` David Gómez
2004-12-11 22:26 ` Gene Heskett
[not found] ` <1102803807.3183.59.camel@kl>
2004-12-12 0:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 0:38 ` David Gómez
2004-12-12 22:08 ` Simos Xenitellis
2004-12-12 22:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2004-12-12 23:06 ` David Gómez
2004-12-12 23:52 ` Andries Brouwer
2004-12-12 15:44 ` Lehmann
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2004-12-12 14:02 Simos Xenitellis
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